Tesla Recalls 362K Cars Over Full Self Driving Failures

by Tim Healey

Published: February 16th, 2023

tesla recalls 362k cars over full self driving failures

Tesla is recalling more than 362,000 cars that have the company's so-called Full Self-Driving Beta system. The recall is voluntary.

An over-the-air update is scheduled to fix the issue in the 362,758 affected vehicles. Text from the recall notice posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Web site says that affected Teslas may: "Act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution."

The notice also says the affected vehicles might have difficulty responding to changes in posted speed limits.

Tesla will be recalling 2016-2023 Model S and Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles that either have Full Self-Driving Beta or are awaiting installation.

Despite the name, the system is not fully autonomous. Humans must stand ready to intervene at any second. There are no true fully autonomous vehicles on the road today.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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VoGhost on Feb 17, 2023

FYI, Tesla does SW updates OTA all the time. At least once a month. Not news, unless you're an ICE age automaker that can't engineer how to do OTA updates.

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- Joh65690876 on Mar 11, 2023
  
  You’re just another “Tesla zombie” drinking Elon’s constant flow of purple Jesus. Firstly “self driving systems” are a stupid lie, they’re flawed and don’t work. Secondly any vehicle with “self driving systems” should automatically be charged an heavy insurance surcharge. Lastly the ”self driving system” should be deleted. Tesla does SW updates OTA all the time so save some lives.
  
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- VoGhost on Mar 11, 2023
  
  Thanks, John, The topic at hand is how this is just an OTA update of SW, not your opinion of FSD, insurance rates and how you should be the person who decides what SW an automaker uses.
  But interesting that you think that insulting me is the right call here.
  
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- Joh65690876 on Mar 13, 2023
  
  So when you state, “Not news, unless you're an ICE age automaker that can't engineer how to do OTA updates”, who are you insulting? I would say everyone who drives a cheap, old, low tech, ICE shitbox who probably can’t afford an overpriced 8 year life flawed EV techno gadget. Your comments are snotty, bourgeois and Tesla EV centric. So you’re just another Tesla EVangelist who thinks that the lie that is the “Full Self-Driving Beta” can be fixed with software changes? Maybe you should start by asking those dead bikers that Teslas can’t detect.
  
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Kwik_Shift_Pro4X on Feb 17, 2023

EV fails...again.

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- EBFlex on Feb 18, 2023
  
  Not surprising. Government cars are not ready for primetime.
  
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- VoGhost on Feb 20, 2023
  
  The only failure is not comprehending that this is a normal OTA SW update. Tesla does them monthly. Just like a smart phone.
  
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Buickman on Feb 17, 2023

I am the news bro.

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GrayOne on Feb 17, 2023

Despite the name, the system is not fully autonomous. Humans must stand ready to intervene at any second. There are no true fully autonomous vehicles on the road today.

Waymo and Cruise have self driving cars, without any human safety driver, in San Francisco and Pheonix.

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